RE: Data Center Facility Costs

Well if anyone wants to get together to build an Eastern Washington
datacenter, we would love to help. :)   Depending on where on the east
side of the state, the power costs range from a low of about $0.015 KWh
to about $0.070 KWh and it is all hydro.

John van Oppen
Spectrum Networks LLC
206.973.8302 (Direct)
206.973.8300 (main office)

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
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Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 8:11 AM
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Subject: Re: Data Center Facility Costs


As much as I'd love to invite you all to be customers, don't come to 
Maine.

We pay about $0.16 per KWH, making the power bill the major component in

a customer's colocation bill. We save a worthwhile amount of money in 
the winter by mixing some outdoor air, but it's not substantial enough 
to affect colo customer's bills.

If you were on a Maine island with power, it might be $0.28-0.55 per 
KWH. 

On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 10:12:38AM -0500, Jeff Koch wrote:
> 
> I changed the title a little to reflect the changed conversation about
the 
> cost of running a data center.
> 
> Anyway, are there parts of the country where the cost of running a
data 
> center are substantially cheaper? Maybe where the cost of power is 3
cents 
> per KW or maybe where the climate is cooler and you can just open the
doors 
> (figuratively speaking) to cool the servers. Since electricity seems
to be 
> the greatest operating cost where's the best place to locate a DC?
> 
> 
> 
> At 06:43 AM 3/4/2008, you wrote:
> >joe mcguckin wrote:
> >
> >>I don't think it costs $276 to reject the heat. Most modern HVAC
systems 
> >>have something like a 4:1 effeciency factor, so it probably really
> >>costs something like $70 for cooling...
> >
> >Check the archives of NANOG42 (you're on the attendee list too...)
and 
> >you'll see someone (multiple people?) quote the figures I used.  I 
> >recently attended a cooling seminar (thanks Digital Realty Trust!)
and 
> >they quoted a facility that had metered their "stuff" and were
stunned by 
> >the results.
> >
> >Note that I lumped things together as "infrastructure", not just
direct 
> >cooling.
> >
> >pt
> >
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> Best Regards,
> 
> Jeff Koch, Intersessions 
> 
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